Yesterday, 2key became the first blockchain-crypto solution on Zoom Marketplace!

Three weeks ago, we announced that we were shifting our focus towards a COVID-19 initiative aimed at easing small and big business pain during the crisis…
Many service providers, conferences and event organizers migrated to live video streaming their services and events and moved them to Zoom.

Switching to Zoom is hard enough! 2key makes it easier.
We have built a SmartLink-based smart contract that solves most administrative and marketing problems by allowing Zoom users to:
- Launch ready-made paywalled sessions smart contract.
- Use a self-managed registration and payment process.
- Accept cryptocurrencies as payment.
- Grow with the 2key viral referral system of SmartLinks.

Now, fully integrated with Zoom API, and the first-ever crypto-blockchain official product on the Zoom marketplace, 2key SmartSessions manage the entire Zoom process.
This is how 2key alleviates the pain caused by the imposed closures due to COVID-19.

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Multicoin Capital, a fund which raised at least $75M, made its name in the 2017 bull run, a time when deciding what crypto to buy based on coin flipping would have been profitable.

That time is gone.
Here's how the Multicoin is performing these days. Worth noting that Multicoin's SOL position is locked, and current ROI is based on 1.6% circulating supply.

Their large short on Zcash, which they boasted on Forbes, isn't going too well, nor did their long on EOS.

By analyzing the Celsius smart contract, it is possible to see hodlers in action. Regardless of which direction the price moves, deposits have exceeded withdrawals.

While the present state of Binance's blockchain has been limited to mere use of BDEX & forcing IEOs to issue BEP-2 tokens instead of ERC-20 tokens, the exchange aims to evolve its offering to create a chain strikingly similar to ETH 2.0.

- Smart Contracts
- Staking
- Open Source
- EVM Compatible
- Fast Block Times
- Low Transaction Costs

However, these will be one key difference.
The Chain will imitate the 21 supernode model for validation, a system similar to that of STEEM, a blockchain that Binance claims to have had inadvertently taken control of by voting in supernodes of Justin Sun's choice.

Each share of Grayscale's Ethereum Fund is backed by only 0.095 ETH, which is equal to less than $15 at ETH's current price.

However, shares of Grayscale's Ethereum Fund trade at $80 on the OTC stock market. This means that there are still people out there paying 5 times ETH's real price, just because they don't want to make an account on cryptocurrency exchanges.

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The number of distinct addresses that participated in a transfer for the given asset in any given day. Each address is counted only once for the day. Both the senders and the receivers of the asset are counted.

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We've compared projects by average developer activity in the last 90d, and highlighted the top 12 in a comparison of dev. activity vs marketcap.

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- There is no company or person controlling the DigiByte blockchain
- No ICO
- Open-source blockchain created in late 2013 and released in early 2014, run by hardcore community members

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No, This is the first platform designed to launch chains. Specifically, interoperable blockchains that are compliant with WASM and EVM, making it easy to test and even launch scalable networks that can easily operate on other chains alongside on AVA

During steep market crashes, asset classes tend to converge. At the onset of the current stock market fall, both Bitcoin and gold had sharp correlation peaks with the stock market.

Now, however, Bitcoin is once again becoming a non-correlated asset.

I saw this news about AVA acquiring a private markets platform that empowers investors to manage alternative investments. The CEO and other team members will join AVA full time and all their partnerships will be merged in.

How will this affect AVA's growth and will other companies suceed if they attempt to do the same thing?

Haven't really heard much of its details but I saw that Athereum is using the Same Keys, EVM, and tooling as Ethereum. Yet fast, highly secure, and scalable still.

Ethereum gave the world the ability to build decentralized applications. Developers, entrepreneurs, and crypto-enthusiasts can plainly see the potential decentralized networks provide to global economies. Is this the digital age where people can build their own custom blockchains?

While ETH's price is 5% higher than it was at the start of the year, the amount of ETH locked in DeFi is down by almost 10%.
The setback is likely a consequence of back-to-back exploits in which DeFi protocols lost millions in user funds.
However, the tide is turning and confidence in DeFi is renewing, with more than 250,000 ($34M) ETH locked just today.

Who is Emin Gün Sirer?
Emin created Karma in 2003, the first cryptocurrency to use a PoW consensus mechanism. He has made considerable contributions to the earliest days of operating systems and even decentralized protocols. He went on to publish the Avalanche consensus, which is going to be implemented in to AVA, a development led by AVA Labs.

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Ethereum has a similar hierarchy, but it falls short of its ability to be customized at every layer. In many ways, however, the second-largest blockchain network opened the door to flexible crypto networks. And AVA wants to continue in this same vein.

By allowing developers to interact and adapt every layer of the network to their specific needs, AVA offers unparalleled customizability. These needs could range from supply chain management, tokenized bonds or gold, fundraising, and everything in between. Plus, the advanced functionality may reveal never-before-seen applications.
https://cryptobriefing.com/ava-labs-wants-be-ethereum-2-tesnet/

Thoughts on how successful it may be?

The Mean Dollar Invested Age, a metric developed by the Santiment team, equates the average investment into BTC at a given point in time (Learn More Here).

The metric is based on the average price invested into BTC held outside of exchanges. Based on historical data, the MDIA index can be a good indicator of bull/bear phases. During accumulation periods, like 2017, the MDIA reaches very high levels. On the other hand, sharp drops in MDIA point to BTC purchased at "expensive" rates being sent back to exchanges, and such events seem to be followed by price drops.

Bitcoin was a product of the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent recession. 2020 places the first recession Bitcoin has to test, and so far, Bitcoin is certainly standing out.

While the S&P500 and popular land index funds suffer devastating drops, Bitcoin stands out with a mitigated loss. The coming few weeks could be the final litmus test to prove Bitcoin's status as a Store of Value, and an asset class that major institutions could use as a hedge against volatility of traditional assets.

The Steem ecosystem is splitting. The forked chain called Hive will be led by the current witnesses, who many claim simply want to hold on to their power and cushy payroles as block validators.

On the other hand, the classic Steem chain will be led by Justin Sun, who will retain the Steem.com domain and many claim he will use this power to push Steem into the Tron ecosystem.

It's worth noting that the current price action is accompanied with a 10x increase in volume. Justin Sun had purchased over 60M Steem coins at an approximate 50% discount, half of which are liquid. This price action has enabled him to break-even on his Steem acquisition.

The crypto exchange FTX offers the ability to gamble on the winner of the 2020 US presidential election.
The winning odds of all candidates adds up to only 0.973. That means the market values a 2.7% chance that no candidate from a major party wins the election.
The last person who was unaffiliated with a major party yet won the election was George Washington, in 1793.